This project was designed to provide the innovation policy community with statistical and economic analyses that allow the evaluation and the characteristics and performances of national and regional innovation systems. The tasks delivered under this service contract were the continuation of activities under the previous European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) project.
Within this framework, Technopolis Group was involved in the production of the Regional Innovation Scoreboard 2011 together with MERIT, where we provided an in-depth analysis of regional research and innovation funding coming from the Structural Funds and from the 6th and 7th European Research Framework Programme.
Technopolis Group also worked on the production of the European Public Sector Innovation Scoreboard 2012 with MERIT: the work focussed intially on developing a methodology for defining/measuring public sector innovation and then, on producing the first European Public Sector Innovation Scoreboard. Technopolis and MERIT were also in charge of the production of an exploratory report on new ways of measuring innovation.

Regions are an appropriate level for stimulating innovation. Many regional governments have important competences and budgets in the field of innovation. Their geographical proximity facilitates the acquisition, accumulation and use of knowledge. Regions’ performance depends not only on that of enterprises and research institutes but also on interactions between different stakeholders, enterprises and organisations, whose…

The Horizon 2020 Policy Support Facility (PSF) is the European Commission’s newest instrument to support reforms that boost countries’ research and innovation investments, policies and systems. Launched in 2015, the PSF gives practical support to countries in designing, implementing and evaluating such reforms – whether they are EU Member States or other countries associated to…

Environmental and health regulations may cover a wide range of industries but their economic impact is particularly significant in the chemical, refining and paper-based industries. These sectors are subject to a large number of regulations, in particular European, because of the importance of pollution and the risks that production sites may create or the dangers…

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